i say its fake. for one thing, the sticker on the bottom right has a messed up apple logo on it. and two, apple wouldn't make something this ugly.
I cried when I saw such beautiful machines being forced to take orders from your hideous monster of a keyboard.![]()
look at the back of the keyboard
the apple development team label
the logo on it is a bit...
wrong
but i hope it is a real one
Also what makes me really doubt that this is real is the new placement for the Volume Up and Down, Eject, etc.
How annoying could it be to use applications that use these F1-F9 shortcuts? And no "fn" key on the keyboard, like on the MacBook and MB Pro.
I sure hope that IF this is fake, that this is one of the first prototypes from Apple 1 year ago or so..
This could easily be an old prototype or some kind of cheap Asian knock-off. Witness the fairly convincing clones of the iPod nano and the iPhone that we've seen pictures of in recent months.
What raises a question for me is one of the labels on the bottom of the keyboard. It clearly mentions "rubber feet" in "Moon Gray". But if you look at the the bottom of the keyboard pictured, those divots seem concave without any feet. Even if my perception of the feet is wrong, they certainly aren't moon gray.
Unfortunately the flickr photos have been deleted from that users account, guess he didn't like the spotlight.
I downloaded the original photos, as I'd imagine many others did, but am a bit sceptical about putting them up on my account and then having my account deleted by Yahoo!
I agree 100%. This keyboard did not give me the normal WOW factor that I get from their products.
This is what I use on my PC at home (which will be sold and replaced by the new iMac):
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It is very thin, with small laptop style keys. It is very nice to type on, so I don't understand the 'it's fake because it looks ergonomically horrible to type on' posts.
As a member of that Hong Kong forum, I am a bit surprised to see it being reported by Engadget, MacNN, TUAW, and here Macrumors.
Looks like they've moved the eject key, I would prefer to have it back in its current place as you can easily access it without looking at the keyboard.
i think/hope they are real... but why are they not bluetooth.... surely blueto
oth shoudl be standard on keynboards now.
yes but why not just have bluetooth keyboards standard...
Take a look at the logo on the RIGHT side (not the big one). Does this really look like a real Apple logo to you?
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